In 1657 a group of English Quakers arrived in New Amsterdam (the Dutch colonial town that became modern New York City). They were persecuted by the colonial government there for their religion. Then ...

After the Second World War, the Netherlands tried Dutch citizens for acts of collaboration with the German occupation.
Did they do the same (as the UK did on a limited scale in India and other areas ...

I have been studying Peter Stuyvesant recently, and would like to know two things about him and New Amsterdam:
What were the conditions that he found when he arrived in New Amsterdam? By this I mean ...